Table of Contents: LICENCE EXPIRED: THE UNAUTHORIZED JAMES BOND

Co-editors Madeline Ashby and David Nickle have provided the table of contents for Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond, which is scheduled for release in November 2015. If you’re thinking “hey, James Bond isn’t SFF!” check out all the genre authors in that list!

About the book:

This is a new anthology of short stories featuring James Bond now that Ian Fleming’s work has entered the public domain in Canada.

Since only Fleming’s Bond novels have entered the public domain, the stories won’t reference the films, subsequent novels written by others, or any media tie-ins. However, within Fleming’s works are well-known villains Rosa Klebb, Oddjob, Dr. No, SMERSH, Ernst Stavro Blofeld and SPECTRE. Familiar allies include Moneypenny, Honey Rider, Pussy Galore, Felix Leiter and Quarrel. The story authors will be able to call on any of these characters and organizations along with the many others that have appeared in Fleming’s stories.

Table of contents:

Forward by Matt Sherman

Introduction: The Bitch is Dead by David Nickle

“One Is Sorrow” by Jacqueline Baker

“The Gale of the World” by Robert J. Wiersema

“Red Indians” by Richard Lee Byers

“The Gladiator Lie” by Kelly Robson

“Half the Sky” by E.L. Chen

“In Havana” by Jeffrey Ford

“Mastering the Art of French Killing” by Michael Skeet

“A Dirty Business” by Iain McLaughlin

“Sorrow’s Spy” by Catherine McLeod

“Mosaic” by Karl Schroeder

“The Spy Who Remembered Me” by James Alan Gardner

“Daedelus” by Jamie Mason

“Through Your Eyes Only” by A.M. Dellamonica

“Two Graves” by Ian Rogers

“No Mr. Bond” by Charles Stross

“The Man with the Beholden Gun: an e-pistol-ary story by some other Ian Fleming” by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer

Kristin Centorcelli is the Associate Editor at SF Signal, proprietor of My Bookish Ways, a reviewer for Library Journal and Publisher’s Weekly, and has also written for Crime Fiction Lover, Criminal Element, and Mystery Scene Magazine. She has been reviewing books since late 2010, in an effort to get through a rather immense personal library, while also discussing it with whoever will willingly sit still (and some that won’t).

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